Monday, May 10, 2010

Fabric Ideas for Pillows

Just in case you saw the post today over at The Polished Pebble, you're not having a deja vu. I guess today is Wendy Lewis day. When I saw Kelley's post, I thought I'd share few ideas I recently considered for a pillow I wanted to make for my mom for Mother's Day. When I saw this "MM" initialed grain sack with a flower in between at Wendy's Textile Trunk, I thought, Hey, that looks like it says "MOM"! My mom loves pillows and I thought this would make a perfect centerpiece for a pillow. So here a few options I considered for the pillow.

This red toile and the MOM sack were a perfect match.

Here were a few more nice complementary fabrics with a gray-green check that I think really worked with the palette in my mother's room.

Here was another option that I thought might work.

And here was the final choice. This softer color palette, minus the white, I thought was the perfect combination.

And here is the final product. Mom has a lot of things going on in her room and often changes comforters and quilts so even though there were a few fabrics being used, I thought this kept it pretty simple so it would work with almost anything.

The inside down pillow insert is covered in the floral and slipped into a "sleeve" that has the MOM grainsack on the front and gray-green check on the back with a simple tie on the side.

Mom is vacationing in Arizona so she hasn't seen it yet. I hope she likes it.

7 comments:

OK...so did you put this together...as in...did you sew the whole ensemble...which by the way...looks so good! I'm sure she'll love it. What mom doesn't love a gift from the heart of one of their children. The more creative, the better. At least in my family...

I wish I could claim that I actually sat down and whipped this out but someone sewed it for me. My mother and aunt used to sew everything so I know how to do it. I do have a sewing machine but it would have taken me weeks to make a pillow. I do want new pillow covers for my living room so maybe I'll dig it out of the basement and give it a try again.

This is the sweetest thing I've seen yet! The grain sack is lovely and you picked the perfect coordinating fabrics. I'm sure she is going to love it - I know I would. And I know I would cry buckets if my son gave that to me! :) A sweet simple gift from the heart ~ just what a mother wants.Good Job!

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